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HELENIUS IN TOUGH TEST

Finnish heavyweight hope Robert Helenius didn´t just pull out of the important fight against Siarhei Lyakhovich yesterday - he also relinquished the EU title where Brit Martin Rogan was the mandatory challenger - or was forced to give the title up due to the injury that forced the cancellation of the fight against Lyakhovich.

Co-challenger for Martin Rogan for the now vacant title stepping in on short notice is Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev, who like Helenius is promoted by Team Sauerland.

The EBU have set June 20 as deadline for purse bids or agreements.

In regards of Helenius there was a lot of confusion if the fight against Lyakhovich really was on. Sauerland didn´t announce it while both Team Lyakhovich, Main Events and Robert himself (in Finnish and Swedish TV) confirmed the fight. This have led to some rumors of a contractual dispute but nothing is confirmed. Sauerland did make it official June 7 which was about a week later than the above mentioned and yesterday announced it was off.

Promoter Chris Meyer of Team Sauerland comments on the situation that led to Robert Helenius relinquishing the EU heavyweight title. -We had no other choice, the contract for the fight against Siarhei Lyakhovich is still valid and we plan to reschedule it for August 27 which is our next TV date after July 16.

-Martin Rogan, mandatory challenger for Helenius´ title, didn´t want to make a voluntary deal so it had to go to purse bids and thus would have interfered with the Lyakhovich fight so we had to vacate the title.

The rules of the EBU and EU calls for a fight inside 60 days of the date of the purse bids.

Helenius´ WBO I/C and WBA I/C titles will both be on line in the fight against Lyakhovich.

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